The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their imme- diate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their imme- diate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
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... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and ...
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... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee ...
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... lines , so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself , dost thou intend , By candles end , And hold the ...
... lines , so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself , dost thou intend , By candles end , And hold the ...
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... lines there grows : Here buds an L , and there a B , Here sprouts a V , and there a T , And all the flourishing letters stand in rows . COWLEY . As they sought only for novelty , they did not much in- quire whether their allusions were ...
... lines there grows : Here buds an L , and there a B , Here sprouts a V , and there a T , And all the flourishing letters stand in rows . COWLEY . As they sought only for novelty , they did not much in- quire whether their allusions were ...
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